The DPS offices are pretty bad, and usually horribly understaffed. The one in Norman is a little shack staffed by one person. What ended up working for me was arriving at 6:30 so that I was first in line. Even then, I had to wait half an hour after they opened for their ENIAC to boot up.
I'm guessing by your description that the state you are talking about is Oklahoma, and yes, they have an online renewal system, because that's the one I used last week.
no more visits to Hell, I mean, the DMV. Just renew online or over the phone.
In most states you can already renew online. I renewed my plate online last week, and all I have to do after that is put the new sticker on my plate when in arrives in the mail.
One time I asked an T-Mobile sales rep about their prepaid options. He told me prepaid was for people with bad credit who couldn't get a contract. -_- Another time I asked an AT&T store employee about buying an Android without a data plan. He told me that they don't sell them without data plans because without the plan it wouldn't work. -_- Sometimes I want to walk into such a store and say "look, I'm 30x as tech savvy as you. Give me the hottest Android you have, hold the contract, with a side of 25 gb prepaid data."
That's basically what I said at the T-Mobile store and I didn't have any problems from them over it (and my credit's fine -- I just don't want to be stuck with a contract after my experience with Verizon.). And the relatively nice thing there is that they give a discount on the monthly rate if you pay for the phone upfront, although their prices are still way more than the Virgin Mobile prices mentioned above. Depending on how long you keep the phone, the extra you would pay while on contract can add up to significantly more than the cost of the phone.
When the snow melts, the contaminants are going to go into the river anyway, so why does it make sense to ban dumping the snow in the river?
Anyway, in my thermodynamics class back in college, one problem we were given was to calculate how much energy it would take to melt all the snow across the campus. The thermodynamics does not work to the advantage of economically getting rid of the snow using flamethrowers.
And that's what I plan to do after the contract expires in August, but the article is about Verizon after all. Plus, considering the nature of the telecom business, how can you be sure that that deal you're being offered is going to stay the same, or that the company that's offering it isn't going to be bought out by a company like Verizon? When I signed my current contract, it was with a different company that during that time was bought out by Verizon.
The ISP could charge a flat rate for everyone, and the power users who go over 250 GB can be charged 10c for each additional gigabyte.
Are you kidding? This is Verizon we're talking about. I'm currently have a phone with them (a cheap phone) and was recently looking into their data plans. Their non-"unlimited" plan is $10/month, and beyond a limit of 25 MB (not GB, MB) the price is $1/MB (again, not GB, MB). Somehow I think any new non-unlimited plan of theirs would be a lot more expensive than what you're thinking of.
Physicians; it doesn't matter what profession or how many thousands of years of experience have gone into it, they know better than you. It comes from playing god on a regular basis. Really. Next they'll be telling you to eat right and get exercise.
For example when you're at a computer lab at school and all they have installed is Microsoft Office, I'd really love to be able to just fire up an online OpenOffice and use that instead. If you haven't already, you might want to try Portable OpenOffice.org for that sort of situation (assuming you have a USB drive large enough... OOo is a beast.) They also have Portable Abiword, which is a lot smaller.
I've just found (due to absentmindedly clicking the link without reading the description) that in Firefox on OS X, it causes both the browser and the OS X interface to become unresponsive. I ended up having to reboot the computer to get it back to working order.
The college I'm at started using Sonicwall content filtering this year. The official line of reasoning for it was that students shouldn't be seeing the sites blocked (mostly pornography, and some more general "adult content") because the information on those sites is "opposed to the mission of the College."
Of course, with the filter that is used here, one can easily defeat it using a proxy.
I don't know if this is any different in OOo 2, I've only tried it in OOo 1.1.x, but try putting an equation in Impress and saving it in Powerpoint format, and then opening it in Powerpoint. It won't work - at least it didn't work for me. In the end, I had to take screenshots of the equations and insert the images for them to show up correctly in Powerpoint.
The equation-editing capabilities of OOo are indeed quite good though.
Read the article. You can only listen to a particular song five times. They're not depending on advertising, they're depending on you finding a song you like and buying it, because you want to listen to it more than five times.
I think what he most likely meant was that rather than there being a certain number of districts per state, the seats would be divided based on the vote across the entire state. For example, if a state has 10 House seats, and the state votes, say, 40% Republican, 40% Democrat, and 10% independent, then there would be four Republicans, four Democrats, and one independent. This would basically eliminate gerrymandering, and make it easier for small political parties to gain a voice.
At least in OOo 1.x it was simple to turn the damn light bulb off. In OOo 2.0, you're forced to dig through the options dialog to find the option to turn off the thing.
Wouldn't their approach be much more effective if, in addition to logging your IP, they also installed a rootkit on your machine?
They could place a suspicious ActiveX control on the page. I don't know if they could install a rootkit through that, though. And, it wouldn't affect non-IE browsers.
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The DPS offices are pretty bad, and usually horribly understaffed. The one in Norman is a little shack staffed by one person. What ended up working for me was arriving at 6:30 so that I was first in line. Even then, I had to wait half an hour after they opened for their ENIAC to boot up.
And yes, I agree their system for getting a drivers' license is screwed up.
I'm guessing by your description that the state you are talking about is Oklahoma, and yes, they have an online renewal system, because that's the one I used last week.
no more visits to Hell, I mean, the DMV.
Just renew online or over the phone.
In most states you can already renew online. I renewed my plate online last week, and all I have to do after that is put the new sticker on my plate when in arrives in the mail.
One time I asked an T-Mobile sales rep about their prepaid options. He told me prepaid was for people with bad credit who couldn't get a contract. -_- Another time I asked an AT&T store employee about buying an Android without a data plan. He told me that they don't sell them without data plans because without the plan it wouldn't work. -_- Sometimes I want to walk into such a store and say "look, I'm 30x as tech savvy as you. Give me the hottest Android you have, hold the contract, with a side of 25 gb prepaid data."
That's basically what I said at the T-Mobile store and I didn't have any problems from them over it (and my credit's fine -- I just don't want to be stuck with a contract after my experience with Verizon.). And the relatively nice thing there is that they give a discount on the monthly rate if you pay for the phone upfront, although their prices are still way more than the Virgin Mobile prices mentioned above. Depending on how long you keep the phone, the extra you would pay while on contract can add up to significantly more than the cost of the phone.
When the snow melts, the contaminants are going to go into the river anyway, so why does it make sense to ban dumping the snow in the river?
Anyway, in my thermodynamics class back in college, one problem we were given was to calculate how much energy it would take to melt all the snow across the campus. The thermodynamics does not work to the advantage of economically getting rid of the snow using flamethrowers.
Can you hear me now?
And that's what I plan to do after the contract expires in August, but the article is about Verizon after all. Plus, considering the nature of the telecom business, how can you be sure that that deal you're being offered is going to stay the same, or that the company that's offering it isn't going to be bought out by a company like Verizon? When I signed my current contract, it was with a different company that during that time was bought out by Verizon.
The ISP could charge a flat rate for everyone, and the power users who go over 250 GB can be charged 10c for each additional gigabyte.
Are you kidding? This is Verizon we're talking about. I'm currently have a phone with them (a cheap phone) and was recently looking into their data plans. Their non-"unlimited" plan is $10/month, and beyond a limit of 25 MB (not GB, MB) the price is $1/MB (again, not GB, MB). Somehow I think any new non-unlimited plan of theirs would be a lot more expensive than what you're thinking of.
Has anyone actually timed how long it takes for the TV Guide channel to loop?
When it's working normally, or when the list isn't frozen in place on channel 847 (Turkish Home Shopping Network)?
Clearly the headline indicates that the Hacker Hellstorm is preparing to launch the American nuclear arsenal at Jamaica.
I've just found (due to absentmindedly clicking the link without reading the description) that in Firefox on OS X, it causes both the browser and the OS X interface to become unresponsive. I ended up having to reboot the computer to get it back to working order.
The college I'm at started using Sonicwall content filtering this year. The official line of reasoning for it was that students shouldn't be seeing the sites blocked (mostly pornography, and some more general "adult content") because the information on those sites is "opposed to the mission of the College."
Of course, with the filter that is used here, one can easily defeat it using a proxy.
I don't know if this is any different in OOo 2, I've only tried it in OOo 1.1.x, but try putting an equation in Impress and saving it in Powerpoint format, and then opening it in Powerpoint. It won't work - at least it didn't work for me. In the end, I had to take screenshots of the equations and insert the images for them to show up correctly in Powerpoint.
The equation-editing capabilities of OOo are indeed quite good though.
You've got 13 fingers now?! For Christs's sake, throw that thing away. It's not safe!
Perhaps he's counting in binary on his fingers, in which case he only needs one hand.
Seems like a lot of work to listen to a song more than five times, but maybe I'm just lazy.
Yeah, that's why I minor in math. :)
Read the article. You can only listen to a particular song five times. They're not depending on advertising, they're depending on you finding a song you like and buying it, because you want to listen to it more than five times.
Just a bit too slow...
I think what he most likely meant was that rather than there being a certain number of districts per state, the seats would be divided based on the vote across the entire state. For example, if a state has 10 House seats, and the state votes, say, 40% Republican, 40% Democrat, and 10% independent, then there would be four Republicans, four Democrats, and one independent. This would basically eliminate gerrymandering, and make it easier for small political parties to gain a voice.
At least in OOo 1.x it was simple to turn the damn light bulb off. In OOo 2.0, you're forced to dig through the options dialog to find the option to turn off the thing.
Wouldn't their approach be much more effective if, in addition to logging your IP, they also installed a rootkit on your machine?
They could place a suspicious ActiveX control on the page. I don't know if they could install a rootkit through that, though. And, it wouldn't affect non-IE browsers.
That's legal, right?
Probably not, but that wouldn't stop them.
Bush should withdraw from Iraq and let the war be carried out by our powerful allies from Togo and Lithuania.
You forgot Poland!